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No-Nonsense Guides

Diese Ratgeberreihe bietet unkomplizierte, sachliche Einführungen in eine Vielzahl komplexer Themen. Jeder Band destilliert wesentliche Konzepte zu leicht verdaulichen Informationen und legt Wert auf Klarheit und Prägnanz. Ziel ist es, den Lesern grundlegendes Wissen ohne unnötigen Jargon oder lange Erklärungen zu vermitteln. Diese Leitfäden sind ideal für Autodidakten, Studenten oder jeden, der einen direkten Zugang zum Verständnis sucht.

The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization
The No-nonsense Guide to the United Nations
The No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism
The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade

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  • The ending of the Cold War was supposed to increase global security and divert expenditure previously earmarked for arms purchases to more constructive ends. Instead, the arms trade has flourished. Not only conventional arms, but also police and surveillance equipment, have been provided by Western countries seeking to make a profit from conflict in unstable parts of the world. Foreign debt has remained high, development has been held back, and human rights have been systematically abused, all with the connivance of an arms trade prepared to turn a blind eye to the uses to which increasingly sophisticated weaponry is put, so long as hefty profits can be reaped. This disturbing book names the players in the arms trade and charts the impact that it has had on war, human rights, and development. The financial and trade mechanisms that permit the arms trade to continue are revealed, amid sordid tales of bribery and corruption. Gideon Burrows concludes his examination by reviewing the ways in which this trade can be controlled or even abolished.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
  • Many people would like to consider ethical issues when going on holiday but don't know where to start. This guide gives an introduction to the issues. It aims to demystify the impacts of global tourism, one of the biggest industries in the world. It also takes in themes like the gap year, and the role of travel and vacations in western cultures.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism
  • In the first book to distill the entire history of the United Nations into one accessible volume, Maggie Black explains how this complex organization works and explores its successes, failings, and current limitations. The book includes the creation of the UN and its early history, how it is structured, and whether it is well constituted in its functions. Black also considers possibilities for reform to make it more democratic, effective, and fit for its purpose. Maggie Black has written books for Oxford University Press, UNICEF, and Oxfam and articles for The Economist and BBC World Service. She has worked as a consultant for UNICEF and Anti-Slavery International.

    The No-nonsense Guide to the United Nations
  • Globalisation has become one of the most used and encompassing words over the past decade, of undeniable influence in economics, politics and activism. Globalisation is literally all around; every aspect of life is affected by a global structure of communication and economy. This fully revised and updated guide condenses this complex subject into clear, concise commentary. It examines the debt trap, the acceleration of neoliberalism, competition for energy resources, the links between the war on terror, the arms trade and the alternatives to corporate control.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization
  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media is a concise and balanced guide to the past, present and future of the media. It tackles complex issues in an accessible and easy-to-read style with black and white maps, charts and graphs to illustrate key points.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
  • A Canadian Mounties boat negotiates the Arctic Northwest Passage without coming up against pack ice. Floods devastate Mozambique, and tinder-dry forests of the American Northwest go up in a blaze. Just blips in the world’s weather systems or unmistakable signals that human influence is to blame? As billion-dollar catastrophes pile up, insurance giants are beginning to take warnings by the scientific community seriously. Meanwhile governments rarely match promises with action that can deal with the problems. But what is fact, what is plain disinformationand what can be done? About the No-Nonsense Guides: Major issues facing the world today, complex as they are, are further obfuscatedoften deliberatelyby political and corporate jargon and media spin. By contrast, New Internationalist Magazine has been a leading source of reliable information and clear analysis for the last twenty years. This new Verso series of No-Nonsense Guides, published in conjunction with New Internationalist, cuts through the confusion to present the facts and arguments concerning contemporary global issues as accessibly as possible. Concise, comprehensive, and affordable, the No-Nonsense Guides will be of interest to busy people, from school age on, who want to know how the world works.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
  • Explores how democracy has been constricted and deformed by economic power- brokers and a self-serving political class from Birmingham to Bangalore. This book considers the different tools people in power have used to manipulate democratic principles, such as freedom, to their advantage.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to Democracy
  • The arms trade brings death and destruction to millions of people around the world. This title names the players in the arms trade and charts the impact that it has had on war, human rights and development. It reveals the financial and trade mechanisms that permit the arms trade to continue, including tales of bribery and corruption.

    No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
  • This guide explains Islamic history, the Qur’an, sharia law, and Islam’s relationship with the West. It analyzes the struggle within the faith for a more humane interpretation of the religion, issues surrounding women, democracy, and economic development, and the outlook post-9/11 and the Iraq war. Merryl Wyn Davies is a writer, anthropologist, and TV producer. The author of Knowing One Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, she also co-authored the international bestseller Why Do People Hate America? Ziauddin Sardar is a writer, broadcaster, and cultural critic. His works include Postmodernism and the Other, Orientalism, and Why Do People Hate America?, written with Merryl Wyn Davies.

    The No-nonsense Guide to Islam
  • An introduction to the state of health worldwide, exploring the ways in which health provision is often determined by ethnicity, class, and gender. Starting with a brief history of medical progress, this guide delves into politics of health in the contexts of big business and private health provision, media, gender, and the environment.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to World Health
  • From coffee farms in Peru and cocoa production in Ghana to jeans manufacture in China and the Banana War of Guatemala and the Caribbean, this fully revised No-Nonsense Guide tells the human story behind the products we consume. Examining the contest between 'free' and 'fair' trade around the world, David Ransom argues that the key question is not whether trade should be regulated or deregulated, but whether it is to be the master or servant of the people.

    The no-nonsense guide to fair trade
  • Exploring the cultural, social, and political dimensions of religion worldwide, this guide offers a balanced analysis that delves into the intricate ways religion influences various aspects of life. It examines the role of faith in shaping societies, fostering conflicts, and promoting peace, providing readers with a comprehensive understanding of the global religious landscape.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to Religion
  • Globalization has shrunk the world in the name of free trade and broken down many of the boundaries between peoples. But it has also been a powerful driver of inequality, over-consumption and corporate control.

    NoNonsense Globalization
  • Focusing on the multifaceted nature of development, the book argues for a shift towards a more socially-oriented approach rather than a strictly political one. It delves into various dimensions of development, emphasizing the importance of social factors in fostering genuine progress. The exploration challenges conventional perspectives and encourages readers to reconsider the role of community and social structures in shaping effective development strategies.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to International Development
  • Explains the basic concepts of finance - how money is created, and how decisions by banking and other financial service corporations are determining the fate of billions of people. This book traces the origins of money, as a source of exchange and a store of value, and the many weird and wonderful forms it takes - visible and invisible.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance
  • At the turn of the new millennium, the United Nations determined that world poverty would be halved by 2015. International agencies are all committed to “poverty abatement.” The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have renamed their structural adjustment policies “poverty reduction strategies.” But can this work? No, argues Jeremy Seabrook, not if we fail to understand the meaning of poverty. Drawing on testimonies from around the world, as well as on the hard facts, he challenges the assumption that wealth overcomes poverty, and demonstrates that the opposite of “poor” is not “rich” but “self-reliant.” Appealing passionately for a shared sense of “sufficiency,” he gives verbal snapshots of people’s lives to show how poverty shifts, changes and endures in response to the growth of wealth.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to World Poverty
  • The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics is one of the few books to analyse the huge impact that climate change will have on politics in future. Written by former speaker of the Green Party in clear, accessible style, it includes b&w; maps charts and graphs to illustrate key points.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Politics
  • A history of the movement that shows why the promotion and protection of animal rights is more critical than ever. This work explains the key issues, charts the growth of the animal rights movement and looks at welfare and protection laws. It also includes a practical day to day guide to what you can do to minimise exploitation.

    The No-Nonsense Guide to Animal Rights